Word: fragmentism
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...dedicated to the overthrow of the capitalist oppressors, she does not allow her appeals to the masses to become clogged with abstract rhetoric and petty haranguing over who will lead the revolution, which of the diverse Communist or Socialist groups is right, or any of the other questions that fragment many Marxist organizations. Her immediate struggle is not to present to the masses an intellectually ideological framework, but rather the need to fight institutional racism and repression...
...narrative is written in prose but he slips lines of verse into it like additional exclamation marks, or commas, or periods. The poetry is raw but effective, as the fragment from his winter in Turkey. Occasionally you can trace the development of a poem later published; a series of fleet stanzas written during scattered days on the island of Poros educe The Thrush (probably his best-known poem), named after a little ship sunk off its shores. A growing awareness of the fierce Greek sun figures in his Three Secret Poems of 1969. Its singularity is a mystery he often...
Author Smith also offers two baroque subplots, one involving the lost identity of Mrs. Farquarson's son, now grown to adulthood and doubt, and the other an entirely self-contained gangster movie. They are irrelevant but great fun to read-a fragment of boozy conversation in a bar or a bedroom, a Polish picnic with a cast of thousands, a gangland execution in which the 400-lb. guest of honor is carted to a packinghouse and recycled as lunch meat...
...business since the late 18th century." Raised and educated in Europe, he himself has been in the business for over 50 years. In fact, walking around the shop is almost an educational experience; one learns, at least, Bernheimer's interpretation of history. Along the wall sits a fragment of a stone frieze from a temple with a carved Buddha whose head has been knocked off. On Bernheimer's tag is scrawled an explanation: "Face of Buddha probably destroyed during Mogul invasion." On the other side of the tag is the price...
...Eliot, Fragment of an Agon...